05x01 - On.ne.meurt.qu.une.seule.fois

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SILENCED SHOT
ATTENUATED IMPACT

HIGH-PITCHED WHINE

ASTRID: Raphaëlle? Raphaëlle.

When a new child arrives in your life,
it risks causing a series of events

that could significantly
disrupt our habits.

RAPH: Astrid, we're not going
to make a big deal out of it.

At the moment there's
no need to dramatize.

And the kid isn't here yet, huh?

And this pregnancy,
it's not certain yet.

- I read all it takes is a blood test.
- Yes, I don't have the results yet.

YOU ONLY DIE ONCE

- Oh. When will you have
the results of your blood test?

- When I do it.
- You haven't done it yet.

Raphaëlle.

Two months ago you
had a positive urine test.

When are you going to do this blood test?
- When I have time,

when I have time!
What do you want me to tell you?

RAPH SIGHS

Damn, damn! Uh, Astrid? Um-

- Yes?
- I know you don't like to lie, but

I haven't said anything to
Nico, so we won't talk about this

in front of him, all right?
- Mm-mmm,

I'm not comfortable with lying.

- It's not a lie, we'll
say it's a small omission.

- And that is exactly
the definition of lying.

- Oh! Mmm...

NICO: How are you?
- And you? Hello, Astrid.

- Hello, Capt Perran.
- What's new?

- There is nothing new that would be
of a sufficiently exceptional character

for me to tell you about.
What is explained is explained

and I do not have any
particular information.

Okay Astrid, no problem.

- Uh, shall we go?
- Hmm.

- That way?
- Hmm.

FLASH FIRES

FOURNIER: Get the lips too.

. . .
There, that's good. Thanks.

- So? What do we have?

- The victim had her ID on her.
- Astrid?

- Alice Alliot, 41.

- Thank you, sir.
- Okay. She's...

from Montreal. All right.

Gym membership.

Loyalty card to a bookstore in the 15th.

Well, Ms Average Citizen.
ASTRID: Mm-mmm,

she is not Ms Average
Citizen, she is Ms Alliot.

- Oh there, Fournier, when you make that
face it means you're uncomfortable.

What's happening?

- Not comfortable, far from it. Obviously
this woman died of poisoning.

There are signs of asphyxia
and clotted blood on the lips.

Moreover, significant cyanosis on the neck,

and signs of necrosis, creating edema.

If I listened to myself, I'd tell you
this woman was bitten by a snake.

- Great. A snake.
- Mmm.

- What kind of snake?

Her symptoms correspond to
the bite of a Dendroaspis snake

of the mamba family,

a snake with one of the
most toxic venoms in the world.

Only, it doesn't work.

FOURNIER: That's it.
- That's it.

- Why?
- Because there is no bite.

Within the necrosis, there:

a microscopic wound.

FOURNIER: As if a venom
injection was given in the neck

with a syringe.
- Is there a syringe-

- There's no syringe. On the CCTV footage

we see her collapse at 12:34 pm.

RAPH: Uh-huh.

- No one approached her
in the preceding minutes.

- So unless it was an invisible man-

- Oh stop it, Fournier!

[Oh! Again?] Astrid? Astrid?
Where are you going?

- Thank you, sir.

To the hotel.

We have to go to the hotel
at the other end of the bridge.

RAPH: All right, let's go to the hotel.

NICO: What makes you
think this hotel has anything

to do with our case?

- I think the venom was
not injected with a syringe,

I think she was injected by a dart

fired from a long-distance
third-party weapon.

- All right.

RAPH: Hello ma'am.
RECEPTION: Hello.

We're going to check your CCTV.

RAPH: Mm-hmm. Thank you.

NICO: I've gotta say, Astrid,
I hate to contradict you, but

sending such a small projectile
from so far away, it doesn't work.

It defies the laws of physics,
of aerodynamcis, of ballistics, and-

ASTRID: There. The bald man.

He enters his room at 12:29 pm

and comes out at 12:36.
Hmm.

- Okay. Astrid, are you sure

about this poisoned dart theory?

- I cannot be absolutely certain,

but the evidence is consistent.

- That's enough for me.
Nico, call Forensics,

ask them to join us in room 806.

NICO: Yes.

- Thank you, ma'am.

- The occupants vacated the room at 11 am.

The cleaning done around


NICO: It's perfect timing.

- We have a lot of
biological traces, but

it's a hotel room, huh?
- Yes.

- We could have anybody.

- Did you find anything else
apart from these biological traces?

- Classic stuff:
cotton, paper residue.

We found something there, near the window—

—residue of dessicated
cellulose particles.

- Hmm!

- Does that mean something to you, Astrid?

- Yes.
I know who k*lled the victim.

The Reptile.
He is a professional k*ller

suspected of committing
very numerous homicides.

- 'Very numerous'? How many
victims are we talking about?

- 54 homicides and probably
others that could not be identified.

- 54? How come we never
investigated these murders?

CARL: It was Violent Crime's* case
* FRENCH: BRB

when I crossed paths with him.
* FRENCH: BRB

The Reptile was the chief k*ller for
the Saponetti Family for 15 years,

helping them gain control
of trafficking in the capital.

CARL: On their behalf he k*lled
rivals, dissidents and politicians.

The underworld rightly fears him.

- He was never identified?

- He's a shadow.

No one's ever found out his identity,

not even the Saponetti Family.

Know why he's called The Reptile?

- He injects snake venom into his victims

using a dart fired
from a very long distance.

The dart is housed in a
custom-made cellulose projectile.

When fired the cellulose disintegrates,

allowing the metallic stinger
to deliver its poison. Hm-hmm.

- Fournier confirms a poisoned
dart was in the victim's neck.

- Does our victim have a
connection with the Saponettis?

NORAH: She's not really the profile.
She was a freelance translator.

- Single, no children, some friends

but no one close. An ordinary life.

- Well, keep digging.

She may have witnessed something.
Go look for irregularities in the room.

Have you contacted
the Canadian embassy?

- Yes, we are waiting for them

to send the family's contact details.

- And him?

- I'm trying to identify him.
DOOR OPENS

- Is it true? You managed
to get a picture of his face?

CARL:
Cmdr Olivier Legendre of Violent Crime.

I've been after him for


know what he looks
like, I'm not giving up.

- At the moment we're not even sure

if this case is related to organized crime.

- Hold on, The Reptile k*lled this girl.

It's definitely a Violent Crime case!
RAPH: Or not.

Until further notice this
case belongs to the Crime Squad.

But if you want to help, you can help,

I won't say no, Commander.

- Cmdr Coste.

- De... lighted.

- What's extraordinary about this case is that

no crime has been attributed
to The Reptile for 6 years.

- But that doesn't mean he stopped k*lling.

It means we must've
missed some of his crimes.

- That would surprise me.

He always uses the
same MO. And something else:

last year we actually arrested
a pillar of the Saponetti Family.

The Reptile notified them
of his intention to retire.

- And they accepted? That's not like them.
- They tried to say no,

but he started k*lling all
the members of the Family.

They were trapped.
So they were forced to accept.

This guy scares people
who aren't used to being scared.

- What I'd like to know is why the
bogeyman came out of retirement

to m*rder a woman with no dark past?

Did you find something?
- Not exactly.

I contacted the Canadian authorities.

They claim that they have no nationals
named Alice Alliot from France.

- Was she ill*gal?

- It seems Canada has no female
citizens at all named Alice Alliot.

Alice Alliot doesn't exist.

CARL: A false identity?

- Alice Alliot's trail is
nowhere to be found.

The process under which
she entered France is official,

but when we backtrack to Canada,

it's impossible to find a trace.

- If the Canadian authorities
didn't know who she was,

she could've been hiding here, right?

- A kind of witness protection program?

- That would explain a contract
on the life of an ordinary woman.

- OK, I'll make a request
to the prosecutor, but

a foreign case could
take a long time.

- Mmm.
- So, I think it'd be better

to find our own answers.

- I captured one of your stones. Hmm.

TETSUO: Astrid.

I didn't dare tell you,

but I lost my scholarship.

- All right.

It's your turn, Tetsuo.

- By losing this scholarship,

I risk losing my visa.

- But that is not certain.

- No, actually.

- Hmm. So we shouldn't
make a big deal about it.

It is a magic expression which
means that as long as it is not certain,

we must not dramatize.

It's still your turn.

MOBILE VIBRATES

. . .

ASTRID: It's Raphaëlle.

Yes? Hello, Raphaëlle?
- Yes, Astrid,

Norah is with a team
searching the victim's apartment.

ASTRID: All right.

Raphaëlle?
- Yes?

- Have you taken the blood test?
- No. Not yet.

- Taking the test would let you eliminate

any uncertainty about your situation.

- Exactly, until you're sure,

it's not completely real.

Oh, Norah! So?
- Nothing.

The search of the
apartment yielded nothing.

Everything's empty:
fridge, drawers, cabinets.

It looks like she never inhabitated it.

- Are we sure she lived there?
- 100%, we asked all the neighbors.

- We went through the
place with a fine-tooth comb.

No fingerprints, even the victim's.

But we found bleach residue.
- Crap, we're too late!

The Reptile knew her habits.

That means he was watching her.

Norah, take a team and
go around the buildings opposite.

NORAH: Right, Commander.

- I will return to Criminal
Documentation. Now.

- Am I going to get
used to her eventually?

- No, you don't get used to it, Norah,

even I'm not. Believe me.

- Shall we go?

Oh, Raphaëlle?
JUMP GASP

- I was looking for you.
- I- was checking something.

- In the line-up room?
- Yes! I was checking something

in the line-up room. You
wanted to ask me something?

- Uh, yes. Nothing conclusive
across from the victim's home.

No empty apartments or roof traffic.

- I was checking something.

- Yes, you too?
TEXT ALERT

- Oh. Message from Astrid.
I have to... go.

- It's there,

almost every time,

present in The Reptile's criminal sphere:

this work vehicle.
There.

There, there, there, there, there,
there, there, and there. Hm-hmm.

Near a crime scene.
Near a victim's home.

And today, I saw it.

It was gray, with 'Gardens in Bloom' on it.

- Okay. Gray, 'Gardens in Bloom.'
Okay.

Yes, Norah,

we know where The Reptile
was observing the victim.

Listen carefully.
Call all our mobile units,

we're looking for a gray work
vehicle marked 'Gardens in Bloom.'

- No need.
I already know where it is.

No need.

RAPH: Impound, of course.
ASTRID: Hmm.

IMPOUND

- It's Fort Knox, this thing!
- Mm-mmm. It is an armored van.

- Will you be much longer, sir?

- It takes time to jimmy
an armored car lock!

{an4}FREE QUOTE
DESIGN
LAYOUT
MAINTENANCE

- Don't shout, we can hear you.
- It's been 28 minutes.

- Wow!
WHISTLES

This is HQ!

- Hm-hmm.

RAPH:
Great stuff for watching Alice Alliot.

NORAH:
Very clever, a mobile HQ,

especially with equipment like this.

He was hacking
everything from this van.

Remote listening, tracking on his
computer. Nothing escaped him.

- So-called.

- Why is that?
- You can't say 'nothing escaped him.'

He made a mistake,

he parked his van incorrectly

and it was towed and impounded,

which means something did escape him.

- She's right.

A meticulous, sophisticated k*ller
would not have made this mistake.

I think there was something
different in his contract this time,

something disturbing.

- True, the victim has a
different profile from the others.

Maybe it was a personal matter?

RAPH: Or he was pressured.

He was forced to come out of retirement.

UNKNOWN CAMERA FIRES

TEXT ALERT

. . .

. . .

LAUGHS QUIETLY

- Messaging your lover?

SCOFFS
- To my son, you idiot. It's Theo.

- Are we sleeping at
your place or mine tonight?

- Uh, neither one.

I have another thing
to do tonight, alone.

- Oh, fine.
Okay, I understand.

Anyway, I have something tonight
too, been planned for a while.

I'd forgotten.

- It's just for tonight, all right?
- Mm-hmm.

Anyway, it's okay that
we're not glued to each other...

- Mm-hmm.

- ...all the time. Hmmp.

ASTRID: I don't understand.
Delaying the time

of the blood test will
not change its result.

WILLIAM:
Denial is common, especially in

this type of case.
- And especially among neurotypicals.

MAX: It depends, right?
Sometimes I bury a problem

so I don't think
about it anymore.

- Max...
- Yes?

- ...It's not the same thing.

If Raphaëlle is
pregnant, she is pregnant;

if Raphaëlle is not
pregnant, she is not.

Taking this test will not
change reality. On the contrary.

It will only reveal it.

- I don't want to contradict you,

but in quantum physics,
observing a phenomenon or not

can actually influence the outcome.

- This is not quantum
physics, this is an embryo.

Either there is an
embryo, or there is not.

- Astrid, why is it so important

for you to know if
Raphaëlle is pregnant or not?

- I read that arrival of an
infant has a considerable impact

on parents' daily lives.

If Raphaëlle has this child,

it will inevitably disrupt our habits.

I cannot figure out if our friendship

can adapt to
these new parameters.

- Hmm. Well listen...
What can I say about that? I-

LAUGHS NERVOUSLY

WILLIAM: Ah! Hello! Come in!

- Good morning.
WILLIAM: Well I recently announced

the arrival of a new member
who is joining us here.

Here he is. May I present Sami.

ALL: Hello, Sami.
SAMI: Nice to meet you.

- Sami.

- Astrid?

- Oh.
LAUGHS NERVOUSLY

Uh, you- you know each other?

- We frequented, for a short period,

the same equestrian center.

- I didn't know you would be here.

I didn't know.

- Yes, after all- Sami!

Come back!

WILLIAM: Question—

—is there a problem between you?

- I don't believe so.

He left.
WILLIAM: Yes.

SIGHS

MEDICAL
ANALYSIS
LAB

PIANO: SUITE INGLESA #2 BY JS BACH

BACH FADES

MULTIPLE TEXT ALERTS

[What the f*ck?]

[f*ck, what is this?]

SHOT

[Oh f*ck!]

SHOTS

SHE GASPS

SHOT

TIRES SCREECH
- HURRY!

SHOT

- Go!
PEELS OUT

Were you following me?
- That was the first thing

that came to mind?

- Don’t change the subject, Nico!
You following me? Are you jealous?

- Don't take me for a fool!
Why did you go to a lab?

{an4}- f*ck, stop!

{an4}Stop, I tell you!

- Raph?

RAPH! f*ck!

[[f*ck.]]
PEELS OUT

RAPH PACING

- Do you realize, Astrid?

Nico. Nico following me!
He's following me now!

- That is exactly what
saved your life, Raphaëlle.

GRUDGING
- Yes.

Yes, well, in the meantime...

...I don't think The Reptile
wanted to k*ll me, no.

He wanted to scare me. Otherwise,
believe me, he wouldn't have missed.

- You can't be absolutely
sure it was The Reptile.

It is absolutely not his modus operandi.

- Yeah? Who else?

We found his HQ, now he's afraid.

I assure you, next
time he won't hesitate.

RAPH FUMING

This one seems to be

giving you some trouble.

- It should not.

MOBILE VIBRATES

. . .

- Yes, Norah?

Norah identified the
suspect in the hotel videos.

Are you listening to me, Astrid?

Thank you, Norah.

- May I present: Nikola Gorlenko.

I identified him using
facial recognition software.

The software scanned all the networks
and found Gorlenko on one of them.

- He's Croatian.

He has a record as long as
the complete works of Victor Hugo.

He was involved in several
trafficking cases with the Saponettis,

but there's a catch.
- What kind?

NORAH: He was in a bar fight,

so he was in a cell at a police
station when the m*rder took place.

- So, he has a secret evil twin?

- Or he can be in two places at once.
RAPH: Well, or

the video was faked.
NORAH: I don't think so.

The camera feed is

saved on an external server.

- Look for links with the victim. Nico,

anything from the prosecutor
on the possible witness protection

program with Canada?
- No, nothing.

- Fine, I'll try something else.

TEST RESULTS

CALLING

PHILIPPE: Cmdr Coste, what a pleasure.
- Dad.

I'm not used to asking you for help,

but we're dealing
with a complicated file

regarding witness protection
related to a foreign country.

Could you call your friends at

Quai d'Orsay* to speed things up?
* FOREIGN MINISTRY

- Well...
* FOREIGN MINISTRY

We're totally in the dark with
the victim, and wasting a lot of time.

- Well, I'll email you the information.
But I can't promise you anything.

- Thanks.
- Uh... anything else?

- No. Thanks.

- Raph, I know there's something else.

- Dad—

—I'm pregnant.

- Oh.
- Well, it's not sure, but I could be.

- And, uh, what are you going to do?
Do you want to keep it?

- Dad, I said it's not sure.
- All right. And, uh,

what does the father think?

- The father doesn't currently know.

- Oh. All right, all right

You know, 15 years ago
your mother got pregnant,

she must've been your age.

- I almost was a big sister?

- Well, actually, she didn't tell me.

She decided on her
own to have an ab*rtion.

And when I learned about it, I was...

- What? You were livid?
- Well—

- Oh, after all, dad,
'Their body, their choice,' right?

- No, you don't understand,
I wasn't sad because of the baby,

I was sad because she
experienced it alone, that's all.

Don't deprive Nicolas
of the role he can play.

Wait, two seconds—
I never told you it was Nicolas.

HE CHUCKLES

- Raph, I'm your father.

CALL WAITING
- Dad, I have a call, I'll let you go.

- Yeah. Lots of love— keep me updated?
- Thank you. CALL SWITCH

- Hello, Cmdr Coste.

You will stop your investigation.

Next time, I won't miss you.

- You don't scare me, Gorlenko.

- Hello-
NORAH: -Cmdr Coste.

'You will stop your investigation.'

Impressive, right?

Deepfake!

- But- this thing is crazy!

- It allows him to process live videos.

I'm telling you, he's a geek for hire.

- OK, uh, hold on— if this
guy was in the hotel's CCTV,

I'm sure you can find where he is.

- I'll try, but given the guy's
level, it would surprise me.

NICO: Have you recently
had any maintenance operations?

- Not recently. We did
the last one a month ago.

- Okay. I'll need to get into your system
to make sure you haven't been hacked.

- I'll show you how to do it.
Our network is very modern,

we're connected via WLAN-
- Sir, excuse me?

I can handle a WLAN in Sannois.
It's my job. Please.

Okay, thank you!
CLEARS THROAT

- You told him, poor guy.
- It's fine. Another one who

thinks that tech is a guy thing.
KEYBOARD CLICKING

KEYBOARD CLICKING

. . .

NORAH:
[So, where are you hiding?]

. . .

Good, I have his IP address. We have it.

- Well played, Norah.
- No, it was easy.

He was almost as poorly hidden
as you and Raph at the office.

CAMERA CLICKS

QUIETLY
- I don't know what you're talking about.

- That's right, yeah. You know
very well what I'm talking about.

HE LAUGHS

Anyway, The Reptile must be
panicking to be so stupid, seriously.

- Yeah.

- I'm realizing that I don't
know anything about Sami.

Apparently, he heard about
the workshop from a friend of his.

- I can't remember
the last time I saw him.

- It's normal to forget such things.

- Mm-mmm. Not for me.

Before Raphaëlle, Sami was the person

in my life who came closest
to being considered a friend.

I should remember
the last time we met.

- By the way, Astrid.

Thanks for your help.

- Mm-hmm.
You're welcome.

- Really, what a pain,

Being forced to move
during work on the gymnasium.

I'm so sorry for the group.

I know how important it is
for you to have a reference point.

- Hmm.

William.
- Hmm?

- My reference point

is you.

I found these pawns
at the bottom of the box.

- Yes?

- I don't know

which game they correspond to.

- Well listen, don't worry, I'll find it.
- Mm-hmm. Thank you.

- Did you have trouble finding it?
- Honestly? In two clicks.

I hardly had to look.

- We have a home address:
Sébastien and Camille Sicard.

This deepfake for sure
comes from this address?

- I'm certain.
There's no firewall, no VPN.

That's where it originated,
where it was sent from.

- It seems too simple to me.

CAMILLE: I've fulfilled my part of
the contract. You have to fulfill yours.

{an4}NUMBER WITHHELD

No weapon, of
course. But I warn you—

—if you touch one hair of his,

I'll k*ll you.

DOORBELL

Hello?
- Hello. Ms Sicard?

- Yes?
- Cmdr Coste,

Lt Nielsen, Crime Squad.

Can we come in?
- Of course!

- Hello.

- We would like to speak to your husband.
- Did something happen?

- We just want to talk to him.
- He won't be long. I can call him-

- No. We'll wait.

- Yes, we will wait. Hm-mmm.

- Can I get you something to drink?

- No thank you.

- How old is your child?

- Six.
RAPH: Hmm.

ANXIOUS VOCALIZATION

- Cmdr Coste!

I believe we are facing a...

- Don't even think about it.

- ...unforeseen situation.

- Normally, I k*ll on contract.

But there are exceptions to every rule.

ASTRID: Hmm.

- Hmm-hmm.

- Put down your weapon.

HIGH-PITCHED TONE

BRB1: Go! Go, go, go, go, go!

DOOR SPLINTERING

BRB2: Nobody move!

VIOLENT CRIME

RAPH: Fifty-five homicides.

It's the end of the career of the
biggest contract k*ller in the country.

- [[Ah!]]

Do not touch.

- Sorry, Astrid.

- We hadn't considered
The Reptile could be a woman.

- Proving it's not only
hotel IT directors who're sexist.

- I guess we have to
quit calling her The Reptile.

ASTRID:
Absolutely not.

'Reptile' is a masculine common noun

that does not have
a specific feminine form.

- As everyone thought the biggest
hitman in the country was a man,

she always managed to elude us.

- Well, we have the muscle,
now we need the sponsor.

- And the husband?

- I think he had nothing to
do with it or knows anything,

she created two watertight worlds.

NICO: And so?
ASTRID: The candies,

you have to put them back in the box.

- All these cops and mafiosi
didn't imagine that the biggest hitman

in France was a woman.

It makes you think, doesn't it?

- As we got closer to you,

you tried to sh**t me and intimidate me.

- Pardon? No.

- It's not you who shot at me last night?

- Believe me— if it were me sh**ting,

I wouldn't have missed you.
SILENCED SHOT
ATTENUATED IMPACT

- There, I said that it was
not her modus operandi.

- If it's not you, then it's your sponsor.
We want his name.

- I don't know it.

- You don't know who your contract is with?

- Usually yes, not here.

- Fine. So... ahem.

You stop your 'activity' for six years.

Then you take it up
again to k*ll Alice Alliot.

Why?

- Six years.

This is your child's age.

- He kidnapped your son.

That's why you accepted the contract.

- When you arrived at my house,

I was going to get him.

If anything happens
to him I won't forgive you.

- Hey! Don't reverse the roles, all right?

If your son was kidnapped it's
because you k*ll people for a living.

- That's why she came out of retirement?

{an1}He pressured her by
taking away her son?

RAPH: Yes.

According to her he
was very well informed,

he knew where she
lived, under what identity,

and even knew about
the existence of her child.

- OK, but you say she
has no idea of ​​his identity?

ASTRID: So here we are.
RAPH: But, I believe her.

She has every interest in helping us

to get her son back.

- And- no, don't touch.

ANXIOUS VOCALIZATION

CARL: Thank you.
And does she know

why he, or she,
was after Alice Alliot?

- Absolutely not. She
only ex*cuted a contract.

- Nothing else?
- Uh, yes—

—we saved the best for last.

The Reptile gave us crucial information.

- I wondered why the
sponsor wanted her eliminated.

But there was one thing
that caught my attention.

- What is it about?

- She was a jogger, and she
lived near the Vincennes Woods.

The perfect place to run, right?
- Mm-hmm?

- Except, several times a week she
drove to go running in the countryside.

- Many people prefer to run in the
countryside, the air is less polluted.

- Yes, but not 30 km from home,
and always in the same place.

- Yes.

- Her phone never went that far from home.

- Mm-hmm. She never
took her phone running.

- And apart from running,
what was she doing?

- She stopped in front
of an isolated house,

and looked at the
woman who lives there.

And believe me,
I know what I'm talking about,

Alice Alliot was watching this woman.

BUZZER

HINGES CREAK

KEYBOARD CLICKING

- Hello?

RAPH: Hello?
EMILY: Hello.

- Crime Squad.

- Can I help you?
- What's your name?

- Emily Bradway.

- American?
- Yes, uh, I have my passport with me,

I'm authorized to stay in
the country more than 3 months.

I have my visa.
- We're not Immigration, ma'am.

How long have you lived here?

- Since- thank you- for a few months,

I need peace and quiet to write a novel,

no one bothers me here.

- Do you know this young woman?

- Nnn...no.

I've never seen her. Sorry.

- All right. Are you planning
to stay here for a long time?

- Well, until I finish my novel, but

at the speed I'm going it
could take several more months.

- I ask that you remain
at the disposal of the police.

- Uh- of course.

If I can help the
French police in any way.

- Thank you. Good day.
EMILY: Good day.

Goodbye.
NORAH: Goodbye.

- Yet another woman who
seems perfectly ordinary.

An American in Paris writing a novel.

Well, what do you have?

- I sent teams to do
a grid search of the sector.

Maybe Alice Alliot's jogging had
nothing to do with this young woman.

- Yet The Reptile told us she
stopped and observed the house

for a long time.

- Norah's doing a search on this Emily Bradway.

- Well, we have to understand why Alice Alliot

was snooping around
the American woman's home.

Nico...
- What?

RAPH: I need to talk to you.
NICO: I don't have time.

- No, I need to talk to you.

- [I'm listening.]

- Oh! Cmdr Coste, Capt Perran.
- Your father.

- Dad?

- Hello.
- What is it?

- I sent your questions to
my contacts at the Quai d'Orsay,

I didn't get the answer
I expected at all.

There is no witness
protection program, read this.

Alice Alliot is from Wisconsin, not Canada.

And her name isn't
Alice Alliot, but Ashley Omaha.

- Ah, she attended military school in
Washington before emigrating to Canada.

- She wouldn't hang around this
American girl's house for no reason.

I'll call the onsite team right
now to question Emily Bradway.

THUMP

SEVERAL: POLICE!

- Cmdr Coste?

- Well?
- The house is empty.

- My residence permit
has not been renewed.

ASTRID: It is logical.

Your scholarship has been revoked,

it was one of your visa requirements,

in accordance with the Code of
Entry and Residence of Foreigners.

TETSUO: Yes, that's right. But

this means that I will
have to go back to Tokyo.

We're going to be separated.

Do you understand?
- Yes.

It is exactly 9,713 km
between Paris and Tokyo.

- Yes, exactly.

This means we will no longer
be able to see each other, Astrid.

- It's too hard.
- For me too.

How can I be separated from you?

- It shouldn't be that hard.

I have mastered this puzzle perfectly.

This is a simple algorithmic puzzle.

- Good evening.
- Good evening. How are you?

- Fine, and you?

KNOCKS

- We missed it.

- You couldn't have known.

- Nico-
- Raph, I saw you come out of the lab.

Are you sick?

- Are you doing it on purpose or what?

Nico.

- Oh f*ck, is that the other thing?

- Uh, yes, that's, as you say, the other thing.

But wait, nothing's for certain.

Anyway, the answer's in there.

- Are you opening it?

- I've had it since
this morning, I can't do it.

I thought maybe you can open it?

- Me?
- Yes, you!

Go ahead, open it, please.

- Well, OK, yeah. I'll open it.

- Well? It's not complicated!

- Hell, they can't write
'pregnant' or 'not pregnant'?

I don't know!

- [I'm pregnant!]

- This is going too fast.
- Yes! Wait, we're not ready at all!

We just got together,
we haven't found our feet yet,

it's completely crazy.

- I don't know if I can handle
something like this, Raph.

- No, the- the- sleepless
nights, bottles at 3 am,

full diapers, lactating. No!

- Educating a child,
providing them with love,

giving them self-confidence—
I don't have that now!

- Wait, wait, we don't have to keep it.
- Wait! Wait, wait.

Maybe we can think about it, right?

- Is that yes? No? What do I do?
- I don't know, Raph!

I don't know anything about it!

- You have to know, Nico!
- Maybe, uh...

- 'Maybe'? 'Maybe' ?
- I love you, that's for sure.

I love you. But there-
there wouldn't be two of us.

There would be three. Oh damn!
THEY LAUGH

- That's it.

I took my blood test.
- Hm-hmm.

You found your nerve.
- Yes.

I'm pregnant.

- Oh.

So it's certain?
- That it is, it's certain.

- Raphaëlle, I have
to tell you something.

- Yes?
- I can't solve the Towers of Hanoi anymore,

an extremely classic mechanical puzzle.

- But that's not serious.
- Yes, it is serious.

Because I mastered it, I could

solve it in less than 57 seconds.
And now I can't do it anymore.

I- I think my concentration
and cognitive processes

are affected by an
unprecedented anxiety situation.

And I think this anxiety is linked to
the arrival of a second child in your life.

SIGHS
- I'm sorry, Astrid.

I was so preoccupied with
my anxiety I didn't see yours.

- Raphaëlle.

The birth of this child will inevitably

lead to upheaval in your daily life,

disruption which by extension

will cause instability in our habits.

Instability in our habits
that would result in

an alteration of our rituals.

Which in doing so, would
put our friendship in danger.

- No!
- Yes.

- No Astrid, I promise you—
nothing, absolutely nothing

can damage our friendship.

Not even a baby.

I will always be your thimble.

Whatever happens. And then-

DAGOBERT: Hello. Excuse me,
do you have a light, please?

- No, sorry, I haven't smoked in a while.
ENGINE, VEHICLE STOPS

TIRES SQUEAL

- Get in.
- Pardon?

- Lt Nielsen, Cmdr Coste,
I would rather you not

force my hand, so
please get in the vehicle.

- I don't ride in cars with strangers.

- Astrid?
- Yes?

We're getting in the vehicle.
- Mm-mmm.

- Yes yes, I don't think
we have much choice.

[And I don't have my weapon.]
So, so we're going...

- After you.

- We'll gently get into
this vehicle, Astrid, huh?

You'll will be fine.
Astrid, you have to come with me.

Come with me.

- Get in.

- Mm-mmm. Do not touch.